2025 Films (Alphabetically)

2025 RELEASES IN US*, REVIEWS
(*includes titles scheduled for release)

NEW IN THEATERS 
• The History of Sound (Oliver Hermanus) Elisa's Review, Eurocheese's Review 
• Dreams (Sex Love) (Dag Johan Haugerud, Norway) Elisa's Review 
• The Conjuring Last Rites (US) Nick's Review 
• Twinless (James Sweeney, US) HIGHLY RECOMMENDED, NOT YET REVIEWED

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• 28 Years Later (Danny Boyle, UK) Not Reviewed

• After the Hunt (Luca Guadagnino) Elisa's Review OPENS OCT 10
• April (Dea Kulumbegashvili, Georgia) Cláudio's Review

• Baby (Marcelo Caetano, Brazil)  Halfway Mark Best of Year Lists
• Bad Shabbos (US)  Not Reviewed
• Ballad of Wallis Island ()  Not Reviewed
• Björk Cornucopia ()  Not Reviewed
• Black Bag (Steven Soderbergh, US) Cláudio's Review
• Blue Moon (Richard Linklater, US) Elisa's Review, Cláudio's Review - OPENS OCT 17
• Bugonia (Yorgos Lanthimos, US) Elisa's Review OPENS OCT 24

• Captain America: Brave New World (Julius Onah, US) Nathaniel's Review
• Caught by the Tides (Jia Zhangke) Elisa's Review, Cláudio's Review 
• Cloud (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Japan 2024 OSCAR SUBMISSION) Cláudio's Review
• Companion (Drew Hancock, US) Not Reviewed
• The Conjuring Last Rites (US) Nick's Review 

• Die My Love (Lynne Ramsay) Elisa's Review OPENS NOV 7
• Dog Man (Peter Hastings, US)  Not Reviewed
• Don't Let Go to the Dogs Tonight (Embeth Davidtz, South Africa) Abe's Review 
• Dreams (Sex Love) (Dag Johan Haugerud, Norway) Elisa's Review 
• Eddington (Ari Aster, US) Elisa's Review

• Elio (US)  Not Reviewed
• Extremely Unique Dynamic (Ivan Leung, Harrison Xu, and Katherine Dudas, US)  Not Reviewed

• F1: The Movie (Joseph Kosinski, US)  Not Reviewed
• The Fantastic Four: First Steps (Matt Shankman, US)  Not Reviewed
• Father Mother Sister Brother (Jim Jarmusch, US) Elisa's Review OPENS DEC 24
• Fixed (Genndy Tartakovsky, US)  Not Reviewed
• Freakier Friday (Nisha Ganatra, US)  Not Reviewed

• The Gorge (Scott Derrickson) Nathaniel's Review
• Grand Tour (Miguel Gomes, Portugal Oscar Submission 2024) Cláudio's Review 

• Harvest (Athina Rachel Tsangari, Greece) Cláudio's Review
• The History of Sound (Oliver Hermanus) Elisa's Review, Eurocheese's Review 
• Honey Don't! (Ethan Coen, US)  Not Reviewed
• Holland (Mimi Cave, US)  Not Reviewed
• Hot Milk (Rebecca Lenkiewicz) Elisa's Review 
• A House of Dynamite (Kathryn Bigelow, US) Elisa's Review OPENS OCT 10 

• I'm Your Venus (Kimberly Reed, US)  Not Reviewed
• It Was Just As Accident (Jafar Pahani) Elisa's Review OPENS OCT 15

• Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Story (Laurent Bouzerau, US)  Not Reviewed
• Jay Kelly (Noah Baumbach, US) Elisa's Review OPENS NOV 14
• Jurassic Word Rebirth (Gareth Edwards, US)  Not Reviewed

• Kill the Jockey (Luis Ortega, Argentina) '24 OSCAR SUBMISSION Abe's Review, Cláudio Capsule,  Halfway Mark Best of Year Lists
• Köln 75 (Ido Fluk, Germany) Elisa's Review OPENS OCT 17
• KPop Demon Hunters (Maggie Kang and Chris Applehans, US)  Not Reviewed

• Last Breath (Alex Parkinson, US/UK)  Not Reviewed
• Left-Handed Girl () TAIWAN OSCAR SUBMISSION Cláudio's Review OPENS NOV 14
• Lilies Not For Me (Will Seefried, UK)  Not Reviewed
• Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story (Bruce David Klein, US) Not Reviewed
• Lost in Starlight (Han Ji-Won, South Korea) Not Reviewed
• Love (Dag Johan Haugerud, Norway) Nathaniel's Capsule, Halfway Mark Performance Notes 

• Magazine Dreams (Elijah Bynum, US) Not Reviewed
• The Mastermind (Kelly Reichardt, US) Elisa's Capsule OPENS OCT 17
• Materialists (Celine Song, US) Halfway Mark Best of Year Lists
• McVeigh (Mike Ott, US) Abe's Review 
• Meeting with Pol Pot (Rithy Panh, Cambodia) INTL 2024, Cláudio's Review
• Mickey 17 (Bong Joon Ho, South Korea) Elisa's Review, Halfway Mark Best of Year Lists
• Misericorida (Alain Guirardie, France) Not Reviewed
• My Mom Jayne (Mariska Hargitay, US) Not Reviewed

VIET & NAM

• A Nice Indian Boy (Roshan Sethi, US) Halfway Mark Best of Year Lists 
• No Other Choice (Park Chan-wook, South Korea) Elisa's Review, South Korea's Oscar Submission OPENS DEC 25
• Nouvelle Vague (Richard Linklater, US/France) Cláudio's Review OSCAR SUBMISSION FINALIST FOR FRANCE, OPENS OCT 31
• Novocaine (Dan Berk & Robert Olsen, US) Nathaniel's Review

• On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (Rungano Nyoni) Cláudio's Review, BIFA Nominations
• One to One: John & Yoko (Kevin Macdonald & Sam Rice-Edwards) Elisa's Review

• Paddington in Peru (Dougal Wilson, US) Nathaniel's Review
• The Parenting (Craig Johnson, US) Not Reviewed
• Pee Wee As Himself (Matt Wolf, US) Not Reviewed
• Pets (Bryce Dallas Howard, US) DOC Not Reviewed
• The Phoenician Scheme (Wes Anderson, US) Not Reviewed
• Presence (Steven Soderbergh, US) Cláudio's Review

• Scarlet (Mamoru Hosada, Japan) Elisa's Review OPENS
• The Secret Agent (Kleber Mendonca Filho, Brazil) Elisa's Capsule BRAZIL OSCAR SUBMISSION FINALIST, OPENS NOV 26
• Sentimental Value (Joachim Trier, Norway) Elisa's Capsule, Cláudio's Review, Norway's Oscar Submission OPENS NOV 7
• Sex (Dag Johan Haugerud, Norway) Nathaniel's Capsule, Halfway Mark Performance Notes 
• The Shrouds (David Croneberg, Canada) Cláudio's Review
• Sinners (Ryan Coogler, US) Halfway Mark Best of Year Lists
• Sirat (Oliver Laxe, Spain) Elisa's Review SPAIN OSCAR SUBMISSION FINALIST, OPENS NOV 14
• The Smashing Machine (Benny Safdie, US) Elisa's Review OPENS OCT 3
• Snow White (Marc Webb, US) Cláudio's Review 
• Superman (James Gunn, US) Not Reviewed

• Thunderbolts* (Jake Schreier, US) Halfway Mark Performance Notes 
• Twinless (James Sweeney, US) 

• The Ugly Stepsister (Emilie Blichfeldt, Norway)  Halfway Mark Best of Year Lists 

• Viêt and Nam (Truong Minh Qúy, Vietnam) Cláudio's Review, Halfway Mark Best of Year Lists

• Wake Up Dead Man (US) Cláudio's Review OPENS NOV 26
• Weapons (Zach Cregger, US) Nick's Review, On Amy Madigan's Performance
• The Wedding Banquet (Andrew Ahn, US) Not Reviewed
• Wild Diamond (Agathe Riedinger) Elisa's Review
• William Tell (Nick Hamm, UK/Switzerland) Abe's Review

AWAITING DISTRIBUTION OR RELEASE DATE

• Brides (Nadia Fall, UK) Abe's Review
• Das Licht (Tom Tykwer, Germany) Elisa's Review
• Didn't Die (Meera Menon) Abe's Review
• Dreams (Michel Franco) Elisa's Review
• Eagles of the Republic (Tarek Salah, Sweden) Cláudio's Review, Sweden's Oscar Submission
• The Grace (Paolo Sorrentino, Italy) Elisa's Review
• Heightened Scrutiny (Sam Feder, US) DOCUMENTARY Abe's Review
• Islands (Jan Ole Gerster, Germany) Elisa's Review
• It Would Be Night in Caracas (Mariana Rondón and Marité Ugás, Mexico/Venezuela) Cláudio's Review
• Living the Land (Huo Meng, China) Elisa's Review
• Middletown (Amanda McBain & Jesse Moss, US) DOCUMENTARY Abe's Review
• Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo (Diego Cespedess, Chile) Elisa's Review, Cláudio's Review 
• Nino (Pauline Loquè, ) Cláudio's Review
• Noviembre (Tomas Corredor, Colombia) Cláudio's Review
• Pillion (Harry Lighton, UK) Elisa's Review
• Reflections in a Dead Diamond (Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani, Belgium) Elisa's Review 
• Sound of Falling (Mascha Schilinksi, Germany) Elisa's Review, Germany's Oscar Submission
• Sukkwan Island (Vladimir De Fontenay, France/Norway) Abe's Review 
• The Sun Also Rises () Cláudio's Review
• Sunfish (and Other Stories on Green Island) (Sierra Falconer, US) Abe's Review  
• Tale of the Silyan (Tamara Kotevska, North Maceonia)  Cláudio's Review, North Macedonian Oscar Submission
• Two Seasons, Two Strangers (Shô Miyake, Japan) Cláudio's Review

2024 Films (Alphabetically)

RELEASED AND REVIEWED BY THE TEAM

 

• Alien: Romulus (Fede Álvarez, UK/US) Cláudio's Capsule 
• All We Imagine as Light (Paual Kapadia, France/India) Cláudio's Review
• Anora (Sean Baker, US) Elisa's Review, Cláudio's Review, Gotham Nominations
• Argylle (Matthew Vaugh, UK) Abe's Review

• Babygirl (Halina Reijn, Netherlands/US) Elisa's Review, Cláudio Capsule , Gotham Nominations
• Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (Tim Burton, US) Elisa's Review
• The Bikeriders (Jeff Nichols, US) Chris's Review
• Bird (Andrea Arnold, UK) Elisa's Review
• The Brutalist (Brady Corbet, US/UK/Hungary) Elisa's Review, Cláudio Capsule

• Challengers (Luca Guadagnino) Cláudio's Review , Gotham Nominations
• Close Your Eyes (Victor Erice, Spain) Cláudio's Review

• La Cocina (Alonso Ruizpalacious) Elisa's Review, Abe's Review

• Conclave (Edward Berger, UK/US) Matt's Review
• Cuckoo (Tilman Singer, Germany/US) Elisa's Review

• Daaaaaalí (Quentin Dupiex, France) Cláudio's Review
• Dahomey (Mati Diop, Senegal OSCAR SUBMISSION) Cláudio's Review , EFA Nomination
• A Different Man (Aaron Schimberg, US) Elisa's Review 
• Dune Part Two (Denis Villenuve, US/Canada) Cláudio's Review

• Emilia Perez (Jacques Audiard, France) Elisa's Review, Cláudio's Review , EFA Nomination
• Evil Does Not Exist (Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Japan) Ben's Review, Nick's Review, Abe's Review (2023)

• The Fall Guy (David Leich, US) Chris's Review
• Fancy Dance (Erica Tremblay, US) Cláudio's Review
• The Fire Inside (Rachel Morrison, US) Eurocheese's Review 
• The First Omen (Arksaha Stevenson) Cláudio's Capsule
• Flow (Gints Zilbalodis, Latvia OSCAR SUBMISSION) Cláudio's Review , EFA Nomination

• The Girl with the Needle (Magnus Van Horn, Denmark OSCAR SUBMISSION) Elisa's Review, Cláudio's Review , EFA Nomination

• Hard Truths (Mike Leigh, UK) Eurocheese's Review, Cláudio's Review

• I'm Still Here (Walter Salles, Brazil OSCAR SUBMISSION) Cláudio's Review 
• In A Violent Nature (Chris Nash) Cláudio's Capsule
• I Saw the TV Glow (Jane Schoerunbrun) Cláudio's Review, Gotham Nominations, On Bridget Lundy-Paine
• It's What's Inside (Greg Jardin, US) Abe's Review

• Joker Folie A Deux (Todd Philips, US) Cláudio's Review

• Karaoke (Moshe Rosenthal, Israel) Abe's Review (2022) 
• Kneecap (, Ireland OSCAR SUBMISSION) BIFA Nominations

• Last Summer (Catherine Breillat, France) Cláudio's Review 
• Longlegs (Osgood Perkins) Cláudio's Capsule
• Love Lies Bleeding (Rose Glass, US) Elisa's Review, BIFA Nominations

• Maria (Pablo Larrain, Chile/Germany/Italy) Elisa's Review
• Megalopolis (Francis Ford Coppola, US) Elisa's Review
• Monkey Man (Dev Patel, US/India) Cláudio's Review

• Nickel Boys (Ramell Ross, US) , Gotham Nominations
• No Other Land (various, Palestine) Cláudio's Review , EFA Nomination
• Nowhere Special (Uberto Pasolini, UK/Italy) Cláudio's Review

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• Oddity (Damian McCarthy) Cláudio's Capsule
• Oh Canada(Paul Schrader, US/Israel) Elisa's Review, Cláudio's Review
• On Becoming a Guinea Fowl(Rungano Nyoni) Cláudio's Review , BIFA Nominations
• The Outrun (), BIFA Nominations

• The People's Joker (Vera Drew, US) Nick's Review
• Power (Yance Ford, US) Abe's Review

• Queer(Luca Guadagnino, US/Italy) Elisa's Review, Cláudio Capsule 
• A Quiet Place: Day One (Michael Sarnoski, US) Cláudio's Capsule

• The Room Next Door (Pedro Almodóvar, Spain) Elisa's Review, Cláudio's Review , EFA Nomination
• Rumours (Guy Maddin, Canada/US) Elisa's Review, Cláudio's Review 

• Santosh (, UK) , BIFA Nominations
• Sasquash Sunset (Nathan and David Zellner, US) Elisa's Review
• The Seed of the Sacred Fig (Mohammad Rasoulof, Germany OSCAR SUBMISSION) Cláudio's Review , EFA Nomination
• Small Things Like These (Tim Mielant, Ireland) Elisa's Review
• Soundtrack to a Coup D'Etat (Johan Grimonprez) Cláudio's Review, EFA Nomination
• Stress Positions (Theda Hammel, US) Abe's Review 
• The Substance (Coralie Fargeat) Cláudio's Review , EFA Nomination

• Trap (M Night Shyamalan, US) Cláudio's Review

• Vermiglio (Maura Delpero, Italy OSCAR SUBMISSION) Elisa's Interview, Cláudio's Review , EFA Nomination

• Wild Robot (Chris Sanders, US) Cláudio's Review

• Youth (Hard Times) (Wang Bing, France/Netherlands/Luxembourg) Cláudio's Review
• Youth (Homecoming) (Wang Bing, France/Netherlands/Luxembourg) Cláudio's Review

STILL AWAITING U.S. DISTRIBUTION AT THIS WRITING

CLOUD

• 7 Keys (Joy Wilkinson, UK) Abe's Review
• Addition (Marcelle Lunam, Australia) Abe's Review
• Afternoons of Solitude (Albert Serra) Cláudio's Review
• All the Long Nights (Shô Miyake, Japan) Elisa's Review
• Another End (Piero Messina, Italy/France/UK) Elisa's Review
• April (Dea Kulumbegashvili, Georgia) Cláudio's Review
• Audrey (Natalie Bailey, Australia) Abe's Review
• The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire (Madeline Hunt-Ehrlich) Cláudio's Review
• Beacon (Roxy Shih) Abe's Review
• Beloved Tropic (Ana Endara Mislov) Cláudio's Capsule
• Bliss (Shemi Zarhin, Israel) Abe's Review
• bluish (Milena Czernovsky & Lilith Kraxner) Nick's Review
• Boong (Lakshmipriya Devi, India) Cláudio's Capsule
• Carnival is Over (Fernando Coimbra) Cláudio's Review
• Caught by the Tides (Jia Zhangke) Elisa's Review, Cláudio's Review
• Christmas Eve at Miller's Point (Tyler Taormina) Elisa's Review
• Collective Monologue (Jessica Sarah Rinland) Cláudio's Review
• The Courageous (Jasmin Gordon) Cláudio's Capsule

• The Damned (Roberto Minervini) Elisa's Review
• Darkest Miriam (Naomi Jaye) Abe's Review
• Desert Road (Shannon Triplett) Abe's Review
• L'Empire (Bruno Dumont, France) Elisa's Review
• The Exiles (Belén Funes) Cláudio's Capsule
• Family Therapy (Sonja Prosenc, Slovenia OSCAR SUBMISSION) Abe's Review
• Fire of Wind (Marta Mateus, Portugal) Cláudio's Review
• The French Italian (Rachel Wolther) Abe's Review
• The Freshly Cut Grass (Celina Murga) Abe's Review
• From Ground Zero (various, Palestine OSCAR SUBMISSION) Cláudio's Review
• From Hilde With Love (Andreas Dresen) Elisa's Review
• Gülizar (Belkis Bayrak, Turkey/Kosovo) Cláudio's Capsule
• Happy Holidays (Scandar Copti, Palestine / Israel/ Germany) Abe's Review
• Horizonte (César Augusto Acevedo) Cláudio's Review
• Hunting Daze (Annick Blanc) Abe's Review

• Ka Whawhai Tonu - Struggle Without End (Michael Johathan, New Zealand) Abe's Review
• The Knife (Nnamdi Asomugha, US) Abe's Review
• Lázaro at Night (Nicolás Pereda) Elisa's Review, Cláudio's Review
• The Legend of the Vagabond Queen of Lagos (The Agbajowo Collective) Cláudio's Review
• Liminov: The Ballad (Kirill Serebrennikov) Elisa's Review
• Malta (Natalia Santa) Abe's Review
• A Mistake (Christine Jeffs) Abe's Review
• Mistress Dispeller (Elizabeth Lo) Cláudio's Review
• The Mountain (Rachel House, New Zealand) Abe's Review
• My Favourite Cake (Behtash Saneeha & Maryam Moghadda, Iran) Elisa's Review
• Nonostante (Feeling Better) (Valerio Mastandrea, Italy) Elisa's Review
• On Falling (Laura Carreira) Cláudio's Review

• The  Party's Over (Elena Manrique, Spain) Cláudio's Capsule
• Pepe (Nelson Carlo de Los Santos Arias, Dominican Republic) Elisa's Review, Cláudio's Review
• Perfumed with Mint (Muhammad Hamdy) Cláudio's Review
• Plastic People (Ben Addelman & Ziya Tong) Abe's Review
• Pooja Sir (Deepak Rauniyar, India) Elisa's Review
• Queen of My Dreams (Fawzia Mirza, Pakistan/Canada) Abe's Review
• Quisling - The Final Days (Erik Poppe, Norway) Abe's Review
• Restless (Jed Hart) Abe's Review
• Roleplay (Kate Lyn Matthew) Abe's Review

• The Second Act (Quentin Dupieux, France) Elisa's Review
• Shepherds (Sophie Deraspe, Canada/France) Cláudio's Capsule
• Suburban Fury (Robinson Devor, US) Cláudio's Review
• Suspended Time (Olivier Assayas, France) Elisa's Capsule
• Three Kilometres to The End of the World (Emanuel Pârvu, Romania OSCAR SUBMISSION) Elisa's Review
• Triumph (Kristina Grozeva & Petar Valchanov, Bulgaria OSCAR SUBMISSION) Cláudio's Review
• Union (Brett Story & Stephen Maing) Nick's Review

• The Village Next to Paradise (Mo Harawe) Cláudio's Capsule 
• We Strangers (Anu Valia, US) Abe's Review
• We Were Dangerous (Josephine Stewart-Te Whiu, New Zealand) Abe's Review
• Wolves Always Comes At Night (Gabrielle Brady, Mongolia/Australia) Cláudio's Review 

NATHANIEL'S 2024 RANKING, GENERALIZED
(alphabetized by categories)

 

Loved. Think of Them Often
Anora, Armand, The Brutalist, Challengers, The Fall Guy, Flow, Housekeeping for Beginners, Problemista, The Room Next Door, Saturday Night, Vermiglio , and Wicked.

Good Stuff. See Them!
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Brats, Conclave, Didi, Dune Part Two, Femme, Fly Me To the Moon, The Last Showgirl, Nightbitch, Outstanding A Comedy Revolution, Queer, A Real Pain, The Seed of the Sacred Fig, Thelma, The Thicket , and The Wild Robot

Recommended albeit with Major or Minor Quibbles:
Alien Romulus, The Bikeriders, Big Boys, Blitz, The Critic, Damsel, Emilia Perez, Fancy Dance, Gladiator II, Hit Man, How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies, The Idea of You, Inside Out 2, I Saw the TV Glow, Janet Planet, Late Night with the Devil, Love Lies Bleeding, Merchant Ivory, Nosferatu, Orion and the Dark, The Outrun,  Outstanding A Comedy Revolution, Road House, Santosh, Sebastian, Sing Sing, The Substance,  Unstoppable, Wicked Little Letters,  and Woman of the Hour

Whatever Their Qualities -- They'll Have Their Fans -- But I Was Never Fully On Board
The Beast Within, Between the Temples, Code 8 Part II, Deadpool & Wolverine, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, Indigo Girls: It's Only Life After All, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, Mean Girls, Monkey Man, Piece by Piece, A Quiet Place: Day One, and Unstoppable

Make It Stop!
Atlas, A Family Affair, Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, IF, and Madame Web